Sorry, I don't show anything on the 2004 Roar SLH. The 2004 Roar Pisoni PN I had last night is showing as well at this time as any Roar PN I can remember.

Re: 2001 Calera. I kind of got away from Calera in the late 90's. Nothing negative, just followed my PN interest to certain RRV, Sonoma Coast, SLH, SRH and Oregon producers since then instead of the Calera, Saintsbury and Dehlinger I'd been following to that point.

Didn't Calera go through a rather jaundiced period in the 90's? I remember having an '87...oh gosh, a single vineyard...Jensen?...that this big gorgeous Yugoslavian guy brought to an art gallery opening in Anchorage, Alaska, in the early 90's that I was also at: this is one of those instant-cement time/place/taste memories all wine lovers have, where one probably would have completely forgotten the event itself but for the magical appearance of a wine that changed everything. I've not had a Calera since that impressed as that one did, but I've read good press for Calera again recently.

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

It seems, Jenise, that the big gorgeous Yugoslav dude made quite an impression too!

We tried the 2004 Roar Pisoni yesterday with dinner. I won't even try to improve on your description, but we really enjoyed the wine. It was very well-balanced, one of those wines you enjoy immensely precisely because everything is so in tune that it's all pleasure.

I'm grateful for your note, Charley, as otherwise we might have missed this wine's sweet spot.

James Dietz wrote:It seems, Jenise, that the big gorgeous Yugoslav dude made quite an impression too!

Not for the reason you'd think. He had a name that was unfamiliar to me--let's say it was Zovic--and before I met him that night the friend that introduced he and I confessed to me that she fantasized about him in bed, thinking that screaming the name "Zovic! Zovic!" in ecstasy had a certain ring. Wouldn't have given him a thought but for that and the amazing Calera Jensen he brought to share (a magnum, I forgot to mention earlier.)

Really, I wouldn't have.

I promise.

Not me, you know me better than that. It was only the wine I cared about.

Okay, he was kind of cute.....

My wine shopping and I have never had a problem. Just a perpetual race between the bankruptcy court and Hell.--Rogov

James Dietz wrote:It seems, Jenise, that the big gorgeous Yugoslav dude made quite an impression too!

Not for the reason you'd think. He had a name that was unfamiliar to me--let's say it was Zovic--and before I met him that night the friend that introduced he and I confessed to me that she fantasized about him in bed, thinking that screaming the name "Zovic! Zovic!" in ecstasy had a certain ring. Wouldn't have given him a thought but for that and the amazing Calera Jensen he brought to share (a magnum, I forgot to mention earlier.)

Really, I wouldn't have.

I promise.

Not me, you know me better than that. It was only the wine I cared about.

Okay, he was kind of cute.....

Yes, I DO know you. Remember Cabana Boy? And I do know it was about the wine.